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George Wyld MD Edin. 1821 - 1906 was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy in 1851, when he was treated homeopathically for nervous tension brought on by studying for his medical degree. In 1876, he was the acting President of The British Homeopathic Society.

George Wyld was an advocate of Turkish Baths, the Water Cure, Temperance and purity of diet and mind. He was a Physician at the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square.

George Wyld practiced at 12 Great Cumberland Place.

George Wyld knew the Staff of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square which included John Anderson, James Chapman, Edward Charles Chepmell, Paul Francois Curie, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Thomas Engall, Joseph Hands, Amos Henriques, Robert Hamilton, Charles Hunt, Henry Kelsall, Joseph Laurie, Henry Victor Malan, James John Garth Wilkinson, David Wilson, William Leaf, Chevalier Bunsen, the Earl of Wilton, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Thomas Roupell Everest, Charles Powell Leslie, James More Molyneux, David Wilson, W T Ashurst, W T Berger, W A Case, J M Douglas, G H Flatcher, John Fowler, Jos Glover, S Hanson, Thomas Higgs, T H Johnstone, John Miller, Chas Pasley, Mathias Roth, F (E?) Sandoz, W Stephenson, S Sugden, A Templeton, Major Tyndale, William Warne, A Wilkinson, S Wilson and many others.

In 1858 George Wyld attended a Festival in aid of the London Homeopathic Hospital with many Aristocratic and minor gentry patrons attending, alongside Dr. Ayerst, William Bayes, Hugh Cameron, Edward Charles Chepmell, William Vallancy Drury, George Napoleon Epps, Arthur Guinness, Edward Hamilton, Frantz Hartmann, Amos Henriques, Joseph Kidd, Thomas Robinson Leadam, J Bell Metcalfe, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Henry Reynolds, John Rutherford Russell, Charles Caulfield Tuckey, Stephen Yeldham, and many others.

George Wyld was interested in mesmerism in 1839 and experimented with chloroform, and he was a member of the Phrenology Society in 1844, and Vice President of the British National Association of Spiritualists, having visited Daniel Dunglas Home, and in 1881 he became a member of the Society for Psychical Research. George Wyld joined the Theosophical Society in 1878 and he was the President of the Theosophical Society in 1880 - 1882, though he parted company early with Madame Blavatsky and left the Theosophical Society as a result.

George Wyld was active in the London Smoke Abatement Society and the Society for the Simplification of Legal Proceedings, believing that legal advice should be free for the poor, and many other good causes alongside his colleague James John Garth Wilkinson. George Wyld was on the Committee on Sanitary Science at the Society of Arts in 1857.

George Wyld was six foot tall with a red beard, and his Scottish family claimed their ancestry back to Merlin. He married Mary Emily Kennedy. In 1843 (the Disruption) the Wylds had become enthusiastic Free Kirkers. He moved to London and became involved in spiritualism and Theosophy… In 1861 he lived at 12 Great Cumberland Street, St Marylebone, London with his wife, Emily, his first two daughters, Marion and Maud, and his first son, George, plus some servants and a lodger.

George Wyld’s Obituary is in the British Homeopathic Review in 1906.

George Wyld wrote Theosophy and the Higher Life, Or, Spiritual Dynamics and the Divine and Miraculous Man, Mesmerism, Hypnotism, Christian Science, & Mind Healing, Christo-theosophy, Or Spiritual Dynamics and the Divine and Miraculous Man, Miracles as not contrary to nature, but as due to the accentuation of natural force through the direct action of spiritual power, Homeopathy: an Attempt to State the Question with Fairness, and to Analyze the Relative Merits of the New and Old Schools of Medicine, Clairvoyance: Or, the Auto-noetic Action of the Mind, Vaccination, is it Worthy of National Support?, Notes of my life, Diseases of the Heart and Lungs: Their Physical Diagnosis, and Homeopathic and Hygienic Treatment, The Christian saints; their method and their power, The Turkish, Or Hot-air Bath, Consumption: Its Nature, Treatment and Prevention, and many Journal articles. George Wyld edited The life, teaching, and works of … Jesus Christ, arranged as a continuous narrative of the four Gospels, and he contributed to The Light on the Path.